“SHARMA ORTHOPEDIC" - RICHEST SHOULD PREFER AND ANYONE CAN AFFORD”

Mr. Dayanand Sharma, the CEO of “SHARMA PHARMACEUTICAL PVT LTD” is at the helm of the company’s operations. His enterprising skills and experience in the industry continue to play a pivotal role in the company’s growth. He has played an active role in acquiring “SHARMA ORTHOPEDIC” the reputation of a leading brand in orthopedic implants and making the strong presence across India and emerging as a fast growing brand across the Globe.

He started his career with grass root working including working long hours on manually operated conventional machines and assembly of the orthopedic implants. While the evolving technology he came up with new concerns, redefined goals, advanced technology, innovative materials. He bought all kind of technical changes, process up-gradations and mastered the art of innovative manufacturing of orthopedic implants. He traveled across the globe in search of business and learned  dynamics of international business.

Mr. Sharma has to his credits the vast experience of more than 25 years of working in the field of Orthopedic Implants. Mr. Sharma’s visionary approach to serving his clients has enabled him to anticipate and meet the changing imperatives of the  marketplace.

As an entrepreneur, Mr. Sharma embodies the creativity and innovation that keeps his company ahead in the competition, along with the reliability and trust that clients and employees value. He has prepared “SHARMA ORTHOPEDIC” for continual  growth by developing its distinctive business model, client relationships and depth of staffing expertise.

Mr. Balram Sankaran
(CEO,
SCTIMST- TIMED, Trivandrum)

Mr. Balram Sankaran is Chief Executive Officer of SCTIMST-TIMED, a national technology business incubator dedicated to promote start-ups and entrepreneurship in medical devices and biomaterials promoted by Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum with support of DST, Govt of India & KSIDC. He is also Scientist-G at SCTIMST and has over 20 years of experience in the area of technology transfer and commercialisation of medical devices. His interests include Medical Devices Testing &Regulation, Intellectual Property Rights and technology Incubation. He is a member of the working group of Materiovigilance programme of India. He has received fellowships for training in Japan, USA and UK and is a post graduate in Engineering.

Dr. Atull Sardana (MBBS, MS, FIAGES
Chairman,  Alfa Corpuscles Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.

Dr. Atul Sardana is a minimal access surgeon with a knack for applying technology to conventional surgical principals which benefits patients. Dr. Atul Sardana has been working in the health care sector since 1990 starting as a social worker in one of  Delhi’s large government hospital. He is currently a Senior Consultant Surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Apollo Spectra Hospital at New Delhi. He has over 30 national and international clinical publication and presentations and is an honorary member of the World Association of laparoscopic Surgeons, and a member of the Indian Association of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons.

He was awarded the fellowship of Indian Association of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons in 2007. He was actively involved in training of surgeons in the field of Advanced Solid Organ Laparoscopic Surgery, Endo stapling Principles and Techniques, and Laparoscopic Hernia Surgery at Ethicon Institute of Surgical Education, New Delhi and is a faculty for the conduct of the fellowship of Indian Association of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons. He is also an active member of AIMED (All India Medical Device Manufactures Association). He is a certified internal auditor of quality management systems for medical device manufacturing as per ISO 13485:2003 from TUV SUD.

He served as the head of Technical operations at Biosurge Technologies, Mumbai and later was the founder chairman at Alfa Corpuscles Private Limited where he currently serves at the Head for R & D and Product Development. Alfa Corpuscles is backed by the Technology Development Board, DST, DBT, ICMR and GVFL.

He has three national patents for his invention of the “Laparoscopic Access Trocar”, “Safety Syringe” and “Oral Vaccine Reconstitution & Delivery Device” and one PCT filed for his invention of the “Safety Syringe”. His efforts on the safety syringe have been acknowledged by the “Wellcome Trust, UK” and the invention has been awarded the Silver Prize at the Seoul International Invention Fair 2012.

Mr. J. P. Dutta
(CEO,
Lancer Medical Technology Ltd., Ahmedabad)

Mr. J. P. Dutta is presently working as CEO, with Lancer Medical Technology Ltd. since June 2011. He looks after the overall goal setting, future technology development, Image building and making the operation profitable. The company has one of the best facilities amongst the Indian Medical Device manufacturers. The company works closely with physicians and engineers to understand the need of the type of products to develop which should meet patient’s requirement. The goal is to Improve  the quality of life for patients at an affordable cost.

Mr. Ashish Bhutada
(CEO & Managing Director,
Health Mantra India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore)

Outstanding performance in every role year after year, experience in leading large cross-functional teams for critical projects, along with practical experience in following areas gives him the confidence for taking up bigger leadership challenges:

Building a new business from scratch, Campus recruitment, sales team building, marketing management, product management, new product launch, sales programs, leading cross-functional teams, market research, pricing strategy, competitive response, branding analysis, financial analysis, nationwide sales force training (US based), increasing sales rep productivity, coaching, motivating, engineering projects, field sales, account management, retention strategies, accounting management, finance, effective negotiating, customer service, efficiency improvement projects, change management, six sigma green belt.

Dr. T. S.Kumaravel
(Founder Chairman, GLR Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Chennai)

Dr. T. S.Kumaravel is the Founding Chairman of GLR Laboratories Pvt Ltd. Dr. Kumaravel is American Board certified and UK/Eurotox Registered Toxicologist with more than 20 years experience in industry as well as in academia. He is a leading expert in Biological Safety Assessments, Biocompatibility studies and developing strategies for testing medical devices. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Medicine and Surgery from Stanley Medical College, Doctoral degree in Pharmacology/ Toxicology from University of Madras and finally obtained PhD in Genetic Toxicology/Cancer Genetics from MGR Medical University, Chennai. He then carried out toxicology research at Hiroshima University, Japan; National Institutes of Health, USA and  Princess Margaret Hospital, Canada. Subsequently, he has worked with world leading contract research companies such as Covance Laboratories and Huntingdon Life Sciences, where he worked with various international medical devices clients. He has extensive experience in Biocompatibility studies, advising clients on their requirements to comply with national and international guidelines. Additionally, he has experience of managing regulatory submissions for FDA and EU. He has authored several confidential reports, 40 peer-reviewed publications and has 50+ conference papers to his name.

Mr. Sanjay Y Shah
(Owner Promoter,
Unikal Consultants, Ahmedabad)

Mr. Sanjay Shah has experienced regulatory consultants for

1. Medical Devices of various classification and applications. Devices including cardiac (drug device combination products), ophthalmic, orthopedics, IUDs, pain management devices, surgical & transfusion devices etc. Compliance for international  registrations in European and Latin American countries and device certifications like CE marking, US FDA registrations (510k), China CFDA. Regulatory Compliance advisor for medical device plants in India, USA, European countries, Middle Eastern countries and Indian CDSCO.

2. Consulting in Drug Master File (DMF) for US-FDA for active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and 510k US FDA CDRH regulatory submissions.

3. Projects related to international technology transfers and setting up new plants for medical devices like Drug Eluting stents, Ophthalmic Implants (IOL), Orthopedic implants, IUDs etc.

He has wide experience in consulting for Quality Management System implementation & audits as per ISO 9001 & EN ISO 3485.

Expert team in auditing degree of company’s compliance to the standards and regulations: ISO 9001, ISO 13485, Quality System Regulations & c-GMP. Consulting and auditing for c-GMP of Medical Device & API Plants.

Consult in registering R&D Centres of Pharma, API, Chemicals and Medical Device companies.

Unikal Consultants is an Indian representative of Obelis, S. a. Brussels based European Authorized Rep. company.

Mr. Derrick Chan
(Head, Regional Segment Healthcare Polymer
Solutions, Asia Pacific, Clariant (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.)

Mr. Derrick Chan earned his Master of Science in Polymer Technology from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Since joining Clariant in 2010, he has held various technical and marketing positions in the company’s Master batches business unit. Mr. Chan is currently the Asia Pacfic Regional Segment Head for the business unit’s Healthcare Polymer Solutions segment.

Dr. Ketankumar Vadodaria
(Head, Medical Textiles- The South India Textile Research
Association (SITRA), Coimbatore)

Dr. Ketankumar Vadodaria is heading Centre of Excellence – Medical Textiles Division at The South India Textile Research Association (SITRA), Coimbatore. He is in the field of textiles for more than 9 years and has worked in manufacturing, R&D labs, Quality Assurance, Technical Services, Teaching, Consultancy etc.

This has given him a vast exposure to various techniques in short staple fibre spinning, weaving, garment making, melt spinning as well as advanced electro-spinning in various parts of the country and abroad.

He has obtained his Masters and Bachelors in Textile Engineering from M.S. University of Vadodara, Gujarat. He did his Doctorate in Textiles in Nanotechnology & Smart Fibres from Herriot-Watt University, United Kingdom.

He has presented papers in national / international seminars & Conferences. He has also published national and international journal papers. He is also invited for lecturers in conferences / seminars.